Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Arends, Matthew J. Sr. 2000
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, November 17, 2000

Matthew J. Arends Sr., 80, of Ionia, passed away Nov. 14, 2000, at the 
Cumberland Manor in Lowell.  He was born the son of William and Sena Arends 
Jan. 7, 1920, in Chester Township.  He founded the Centennial Acres Dairy Farm 
in 1941 until the present.  He was a member of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic 
Church and the Knights of Columbus.

Surviving are six children; Joan and Robert Bont of Grand Rapids; Bernadette 
and Jack Taylor of Dallas, Texas; Bonnie and James Wilson of Midland; Nancy 
and James Piggush of East Lansing; Maxine and Raymond Marshke of Alpena; 
Matthew and Linda Arends Jr., of Ionia; his step-children, Paget Seymour of 
Grand Rapids; James and Diane Seymour of Ionia and Betsy and Rene Miller of 
Ionia; 21 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Bernadette 
Trudell and Rose Umlor.  He was preceded in death by his first wife, Beatrice, 
in 1979; his second wife, JoAnne, in 1999; and his son Larry in 1966.

The funeral Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Saturday from SS. Peter and Paul 
Catholic Church in Ionia.  Interment will be at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in 
Conklin.  Visitation is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the 
Cook Funeral Home in Ionia with a Prayer Vigil service at 7 p.m. Friday at the 
funeral home.  In lieu of flowers you are asked to consider a contribution for 
Alzheimer’s Research.


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